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Romney Vows To Stop Defense Cuts

Julie Samuel

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney vowed yesterday to prevent roughly $1 trillion in defense budget cuts if he wins the White House, seeking to blame President Barack Obama for the spending reductions initiated in Congress. Romney told the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) National Convention to not bother “trying to find a serious military rationale behind” the $1 trillion in potential decade-long cuts to planned Pentagon spending, “unless that rationale is wishful thinking.” “Strategy is not driving the president’s massive defense…

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